A sketch of medical climatology : Pau and its neighbourhood / by H.Duboue .... Tr. from the French by R. de Musgrave Clay.
- Duboué, Paul Henri, 1834-1889.
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A sketch of medical climatology : Pau and its neighbourhood / by H.Duboue .... Tr. from the French by R. de Musgrave Clay. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![« Another scientific man, of no less authority, adds M. « Carriere, but this time a Frenchman, Dr P. C. A. Louis, a asserts the same facts in a still more explicit manner. « Clark is as affirmative as anybody can be. Dr Louis, « while relating his impressions, sets forth even more « forcibly the same advantage of the climate, a most a valuable one in a great many serious cases, and one « that is not easily met with, even in the most renowned « winter-stations. » « This celebrated practitioner writes : [After the magni_ « ficence of the landscape, one is, above all, struck, on a arriving at Pau, with the calm of the atmosphere, — a « calm so complete from the the 25lh December of the last « year (1853) that I have indeed seen,,during that space « of time, the leaves of the trees oscillate, but never their « branches; so much so that during the first six weeks of « my sojourn in the capital of Bearn, I lived in perpetual « astonishment, having never either seen or read of anything « similar If, since the middle of december, the atmos- « phere of Pau has not been so perfectly calm, wind has « always been rare ; and if I cannot affirm from my own a personal experience that it has always been so during « the worst season of the year, it is impossible for me to « believe, after having consulted the meteorological tables « kept at Pau, and collected the evidence of persons most « worthy ot confidence, that the winter which is gone « differed much from those which preceded it »]. « Dr Foville, quoted by Scoresby, (again adds M. Carriere), « confirms by his own experience, after wintering two « years at Pau, the exactitude of the predominant meteo- « rological feature which had struck D1' Louis. The per- « feet stillness of the atmosphere, according to him, forces (( itself upon the observer more prominently than anything « else ». 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24756519_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
